Title: Web informative content identification and filtering using machine learning technique

Authors: Neetu Narwal; Sanjay Kumar Sharma

Addresses: Maharaja Surajmal Institute, C-4, Janakpuri, New Delhi, 110054, India ' Department of Computer Science, Banasthali University, Rajasthan, 304022, India

Abstract: Internet has gained greatest acceptance as reservoirs of information. It has been observed that the web page along with main content comprises of noise (advertisement, external links), which poses difficulty for various search engines crawlers to correctly classify the web page and it also provides distraction to the user interested in gathering relevant data. In this paper, we proposed a novel approach which categorises the relevant content from the web page and use this information to filter and rearrange the content of the web page. We used the web page segmentation algorithm for parsing the web page to obtain non-overlapping visual blocks and then extracted the features from these visual blocks to build the dataset. The dataset have been trained using popular machine learning classifier techniques (neural network, RBF neural network) to discriminate content. Finally, the classification output is used to perform main content filtering of the web page. We also analysed the importance of features on the learning process and perceive that the embedded objects from external source have highest significance for block identification.

Keywords: web information retrieval; page segmentation; visual blocks; embedded objects; web content identification; web content filtering; machine learning; webpage contents; feature extraction; neural networks; block identification.

DOI: 10.1504/IJDATS.2016.081366

International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies, 2016 Vol.8 No.4, pp.332 - 347

Received: 22 Jan 2015
Accepted: 02 Aug 2015
Published online: 06 Jan 2017 *

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